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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven convicted top U.S. Communists stood up before Federal Judge Harold R. Medina to be sentenced. For conspiring to teach and advocate forceful overthrow of the U.S. Government, ten of the eleven were sentenced to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine each. The eleventh got a $10,000 fine and three years in prison. Robert Thompson, New York state chairman of the party, had gotten a lighter sentence because of his war record: he won the Distinguished Service Cross in New Guinea for swimming a swollen river under fire and, with his platoon, wiping out two pillboxes...
...Paul R. Hawley, onetime Veterans Administration medical boss and now executive director for Blue Cross-Blue Shield, is dead set against compulsory health insurance. He is also a realist. In Washington last week, speaking to the District Medical Society, he sounded a warning: doctors getting set for an all-out fight against compulsory health insurance had better put their own house in order. Hawley had been talking to people all over the country, he said, and "I've come to the conclusion, with a great deal of regret, that the confidence of some of our people has been shaken...
...William S. Tillett and L. R. Christensen of the New York University School of Medicine, jointly, for discovering and purifying streptokinase and streptodornase, enzyme substances effective against clots in the body (e.g., pus or dead tissue) which delay healing. ¶Drs. Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench of the Mayo Clinic, jointly, for work which led to the development of the dramatic easer of arthritis, cortisone (TIME...
...British, whose Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack and whose woollens clothe some of the world's better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths. Last week Textile Expert R. W. Moncrieff told how clothes moths (Tineola bisselliella) got their depraved craving for wool, and how modern chemists are persuading them to let the stuff alone...
EARTH ABIDES (373 pp.)-George R. Sfewart-Random House...